All items tagged with 3D audio (104)

Fresh From the Bench: Audeze Mobius Headphones Reviewed

September 2, 2020 by Luke McCready

Fresh From the Bench: Audeze Mobius Headphones Reviewed

High-end planar magnetic headphone manufacturer Audeze broke out of the mold with the Mobius: a wireless Bluetooth headphone capable of LDAC high-resolution playback, virtualized surround sound with built-in head-tracking, and a number of surprises Audeze continues to invent. In his review, Luke McCready shares what he learned about the fantastic Audeze Mobius Headphones, a very sophisticated platform to which Audeze keeps adding new features. This article was originally published in audioXpress, March 2020.

miniDSP Teams with Dirac to Deliver First Consumer-Driven, Ambisonic USB Microphone for Content Creators

August 13, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

miniDSP Teams with Dirac to Deliver First Consumer-Driven, Ambisonic USB Microphone for Content Creators

miniDSP, the Hong Kong-based developer of innovative digital signal processing (DSP) platforms, announced its category-redefining ambiMIK-1 Ambisonic USB microphone is now shipping, featuring 3D audio software from Swedish sound pioneer Dirac. The affordable new ambiMIK-1 with 3D audio processing from Dirac lets AR/VR developers, musicians, podcasters, videographers, and vloggers record immersive, spatial audio that can be played back over any stereo headphones.

July 24, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Fraunhofer IIS Announces Licensing Efforts for New MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile

Fraunhofer IIS confirmed the release and official adoption of the MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile. The new profile was designed to exactly meet the business and technical needs of the industry and was announced during the MPEG WG11 131st meeting. Tailored for broadcast, streaming, and high-quality immersive music delivery use cases, the MPEG-H 3D Audio Audio Baseline profile supports channel and object signals and is a subset of the existing Low Complexity profile.

Sound Particles Allows Adding Air to All Sounds

July 3, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Sound Particles Allows Adding Air to All Sounds

Sound Particles, that unique audio software company that uses physics, and real acoustic representations of tridimensional spaces as a sound canvas, has now made its Air plugin available for individual purchase. Previously bundled as the "Doppler + Air" audio plugin package, Air allows adding depth and distance to any sounds, sounding like actual acoustics and not as a digital effect. This is great for Sound Effects, since studios can "position" any dry library sound. No need to record everything all over again.

Zylia Demonstrates 6 Degrees of Freedom High-Resolution Recording of Live Concerts

June 4, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Zylia Demonstrates 6 Degrees of Freedom High-Resolution Recording of Live Concerts

Zylia created a new demonstration that shows the possibilities of fully navigable 6 degrees of freedom audio technology using the ZYLIA 6DoF VR/AR set. The company is constantly working on providing state-of-the-art solutions in the field of 3D audio recording and post-production and recently presented the new technology that allows recording high-resolution 3rd order Ambisonics sounds from concert halls, ambient soundscapes, and live concerts in a fully navigable way. It can be then rendered and used in virtual and augmented reality projects allowing users to flexibly move within a recorded scene.

Hooke Audio Releases Wireless Binaural Audio Recording Hooke App Version 2

March 26, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Hooke Audio Releases Wireless Binaural Audio Recording Hooke App Version 2

Hooke Audio announced the release of Hooke App Version 2, a major software update now available as a free download for all Hooke Verse iOS and Android users. The Hooke 3D audio and video capture app offers new flexibility and enhanced features for optimal video and binaural audio recording, like support for 720, 1080 and 4K videos, new 24fps frame rate, and other features available on newer smartphones, plus enhanced wireless Bluetooth performance. The Hooke Version 2.0 App is available as a free download for all new and registered users from the App Store and Google Play.

Waves Expands Collaboration With Qualcomm to Enhance Audio on Next Generation Mobile Devices

March 9, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Waves Expands Collaboration With Qualcomm to Enhance Audio on Next Generation Mobile Devices

Waves MaxxAudio and Nx 3D audio processing technologies are now compatible with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, 765 and 765G mobile processors targeting the latest smartphones and powering augmented experiences, gaming, and more. These Waves technologies have been until now mainly available on Intel and ARM processor-based platforms. This new combination will allow manufacturers implementing Snapdragon processors in premium smartphones and smart peripherals to also support expanded audio experiences.

Fraunhofer IIS Licenses Comprehensive MPEG Audio Codec Suite to NXP Semiconductors

March 2, 2020 by Joao Martins

Fraunhofer IIS Licenses Comprehensive MPEG Audio Codec Suite to NXP Semiconductors

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, the inventor of mp3 and primary developer of the xHE-AAC and MPEG-H Audio standards, announced that NXP Semiconductors has licensed Fraunhofer’s MPEG audio SDK. The complete software package covers four generations of audio codecs, from legacy MPEG Layer-1/2/3 to the next-generation MPEG-H 3D Audio standard and the AAC codec family, including xHE-AAC. NXP will incorporate these codecs in home entertainment product development, from set-top boxes and soundbars to smart speakers.

Zylia Launches ZYLIA Studio v2.0 Software with Significant Improvements in All Fronts

February 24, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Zylia Launches ZYLIA Studio v2.0 Software with Significant Improvements in All Fronts

Zylia continues to expand its efforts in the field of 3D audio recording and production, showing a remarkable pace of product development and innovation. The Polish startup now released the new version of ZYLIA Studio, the company's software dedicated to work with the ZM-1 spherical microphone which provides an easy workflow of multitrack recording and mixing. The desktop application for macOS, Linux and Windows gained many new features and is now more user friendly.

The Audio Engineering Society Welcomes Agnieszka Roginska as President

February 19, 2020 by Audio Engineering_Society

The Audio Engineering Society Welcomes Agnieszka Roginska as President

Agnieszka Roginska has begun her term as President of the Audio Engineering Society as of January 1, 2020. Currently celebrating her 20th year as an AES member, Roginska has served in numerous leadership roles within the Society. Professionally, she currently holds the positions of Professor of Music Technology and the Vice-Chair of the Music and Performing Arts Professions Department at New York University.

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